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Rakesh Yadav, the founder of Adaptive shared his background as an immigrant and his experience at Google, where he worked on several projects, including building an end-to-end machine learning platform for Google Ads. Rakesh discussed how AI and machine learning can benefit eCommerce retailers by personalizing user experiences, improving search and recommendations, and driving revenue. He explained that Adaptive offers intelligent products to help companies build their own customized eCommerce platforms. Rakesh also emphasized the importance of adaptability in the rapidly changing market and shared his advice for startup founders, such as focusing on people, having a process, and seeking continuous learning. The interview concluded with a discussion on the value of mentorship and mental safety in professional settings.

James Hamet, the founder and CEO of Vistum Labs, discusses the use of artificial intelligence in improving dementia diagnostics and care. He explains his background and passion for building technologies for doctors and helping patients. James previously founded a neurotech business called Nurable, which developed mind-reading technology to assist people in wheelchairs. Now with Vistum Labs, James focuses on addressing the clinical problem of diagnosing dementia. He highlights the difficulty in quantifying and evaluating dementia and the need for more accurate diagnoses to ensure effective treatment. James emphasizes the prevalence of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s disease, and the unequal impact it has on women. He discusses the capabilities of Vistum Labs’ technology, which uses AI to interpret brain damage and provide results comparable to PET scans and other diagnostic tests. He mentions the importance of early diagnosis and the potential for preventing neurodegenerative disorders. James shares his vision of expanding the technology’s application to other forms of dementia and brain damage. He emphasizes the significance of building genuine friendships and fostering a sincere approach in business. The conversation also touches on personal experiences, cultural differences, and the joy of trying new foods.

Dennis Weiss, is the founder and CEO of IPQS. Dennis shares his background and the founding of IPQS, which stemmed from his experience with fraud in the advertising industry. They discuss how IPQS uses machine learning and AI to mitigate online fraud risks for businesses. IPQS analyzes various data points such as IP addresses, device fingerprinting, and email validation to detect and prevent fraud. They offer a comprehensive solution compared to competitors who focus on specific data points. The goal is to catch fraud before it happens and provide a frictionless experience for legitimate users. IPQS serves businesses across different industries, including finance, gambling, ride-sharing, and food delivery. They prioritize data accuracy to minimize false positives. The conversation highlights the importance of having the right data and constantly testing and learning to improve fraud prevention strategies.

Rui Aguiar, CTO of Expedock, discussed with us the application of AI in the global supply chain. Aguiar explained how AI can automate manual processes in supply chain operations, such as cataloging receipts and container pictures, to make the supply chain run more efficiently. He also shared how AI can be used in document extraction, which is the information protocol of how goods move around, to help businesses reduce their operational costs. Aguiar attributed the recent shock to the global supply chain to the Covid-19 pandemic, which caused a demand spike for goods and materials and led to more companies entering the space to help improve the broken infrastructure system.

Rui Aguiar is the Cofounder and CTO of Expedock, a company that is using AI to increase efficiency and scalability in the global supply chain. Prior to that, he worked in the Stanford ML Group, and several companies including Rockset, Facebook and Airbnb.

Lori Stout is the Chief Marketing Officer for Bigleaf Networks. Bigleaf provides internet connectivity without complexity, making it easy for IT pros and their organizations to conduct business on the internet with confidence. Bigleaf’s unique network optimization solution adapts traffic to circuit conditions in real-time to preserve application performance and optimize user productivity despite circuit outages. The Bigleaf solution integrates seamlessly with established firewalls, ISPs, and applications, takes only minutes to install, and works automatically to provide immediate value.

Prior to joining Bigleaf, Lori led Marketing for Punchh, the leading digital loyalty platform for restaurants and retailers. As a result of rapid growth and accelerated brand equity, Punchh was acquired in 2021 for $500M by PAR Technology, where Lori went on to lead marketing for the PAR portfolio of solutions. She has spent most of her career in the unified communications and customer experience industries, leading and scaling marketing strategy for tech innovators like Talkdesk, Vonage, and Genesys.

Pierce Healy is the CEO and Co-Founder of Zelta AI, a GPT-4 powered software solution which gives SaaS product teams actionable customer insights derived from sales call transcripts, support chats and survey data.

Pierce was formerly a customer strategy consultant with McKinsey & Deloitte.

Mahesh Baxi is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Provus. As one of the original innovators of Services CPQ, he is responsible for furthering the company’s leading position in the Services Economy. He is a proven leader with over 25 years of management experience scaling the IT, product, and services operations for global software companies.

Prior to Provus, Mahesh served in executive and senior leadership positions at Clinc, Inc., My Ally, and Apttus. He is a domain expert in CPQ, CLM, pricing, quote-to-cash, and HR tech and has spoken at various conferences on the topics of leadership, customer success, and team building.

Mahesh holds a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Dharmsinh Desai Institute of Technology and is the author of two books.

Amit led the AWS Global DevOps and DevSecOps partnerships, is a former VP at Cloudyn and a second time founder in the DevOps domain.

His familiarity with DevOps challenges from a practitioner, vendor and AWS prospective offered him a window into the unique challenge between Developers and DevOps exchange that led him to co-found Kubiya. As the industry’s first DevOps virtual assistant, Kubiya was early to involve LLMs and Conversational AI into the DevOps tool chain as a Slack native chatbot that helps developers self-serve DevOps functions with minimal human intervention – think ChatGPT for DevOps.